Слово "trice". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

In a trice Elementary Ecology had taken the place of Sears, Roebuck, and the suspiciously bulging briefcase was under the table.

As soon as Tobik lying in the room (the dogs had the run of the house) saw Elena Alexandrovna putting on her coat and picking up her handbag he knew they were going for a walk round the village and, what's more, would jump up, rush off into the garden to fetch Beetle, and be back with him in a trice.

There!—Carter has done with you or nearly so; I’ll make you decent in a trice.

More than one convict’s dereliction was shunted off on me, and was paid for by me in the dungeon on bread and water, or in being triced up by the thumbs on my tip-toes for long hours, each hour of which was longer than any life I have ever lived.